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Posted on 12/07/24 08:03:30 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 1013: Luxury watches
I noticed this display in the window of a watch shop, from which all the timepieces have been removed but the price labels remain. And what prices! What on earth could be worth from £14,500 up to £78,800? High res is here.  |
Posted on 12/07/24 3:21:53 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 12/07/24 6:10:19 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1013: Luxury watches
 I actually had one those years ago! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 13/07/24 06:54:30 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1013: Luxury watches
Not an entry, just reminded on this shop in Venice 2012 |
Posted on 13/07/24 10:38:48 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 13/07/24 12:56:11 PM |
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lwc
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This started out as just an experiment to see if I could make a seconds-hand animation… don’t fall asleep while watching it.
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Posted on 13/07/24 3:32:45 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 14/07/24 11:52:46 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 15/07/24 3:01:50 PM |
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GKB
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Sorry but not enough time to develop this further but I did notice that Rolex's earliest timepiece had recently been put on sale. 
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Posted on 15/07/24 4:21:24 PM |
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Ant Snell
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Re: Challenge 1013: Luxury watches
Somewhere in Berlin 
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Posted on 15/07/24 11:58:09 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 1013: Luxury Watch Thief
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Posted on 16/07/24 09:17:34 AM |
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DavidMac
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Lots of very entertaining stuff this week. It's a difficult busy week for me this week. So just a very, very simple quick quickie so as not to be left out. Obviously you need to guess the lady. She is entirely appropriate ........ trust me! Here's (literally) a very tiny clue 🇵🇭. 
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/07/24 1:32:16 PM |
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lwc
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What a crook...! |
Posted on 16/07/24 1:33:46 PM |
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lwc
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A bit of silliness... 
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Posted on 16/07/24 6:18:51 PM |
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DavidMac
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Hereby hangs a tale .......... Those who know me know that I have an odd personal foible which is that every day I wear a brooch pinned to my jacket or shirt or whatever. 
I have been collecting them for forty years. It's not a collection about value. It's a collection about curiosity and amusement. I find them, for the most part, in street markets. The three ladies here were all found in different street markets several years apart. One in New York, one in London and one in Milan. They are all Elzac brooches made in California in the 1940's. 
In 1984 I was on a Concorde flight from London to New York. I was sitting in an aisle seat wearing the golden brooch in the centre. An Asian woman coming up the aisle stopped and admired it and asked me where it came from ...... It was none other than the good (bad) lady herself! ....... just a couple of years before life turned ugly and things started to crumble. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/07/24 7:25:46 PM |
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lwc
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Did she tell you about her shoe collection?  |
Posted on 16/07/24 8:28:41 PM |
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DavidMac
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Just as well she didn't. I couldn't keep up with that! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 17/07/24 12:53:29 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 19/07/24 06:40:13 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Excellent work Loyd! 
A static image from me this week: Here is the actual cap for sale that Trump wore when--some would say--he made the wrong move at the wrong time--in avoiding the bullet.
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Posted on 19/07/24 09:04:14 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 1013: Luxury watches
First to get luxurious this week was lwc, with a couple of very fine Mickey Mouse watches. I like the subtle animation here. The second hand animation really is remarkably good, you’ve got the stop-go motion just right. I haven’t timed it but I assume you’ve used one second intervals. The backwards cuckoo clock is fun, and the moving shine on the skeleton watch entry is excellent. But why are all the watches in the background facing the camera, rather than the front of the window? A remarkable restocking from Ben Boardman, with an immaculately populated scene. I like the reflection of the watch on the glass. The Rolex pen is a good idea, but both its scale and angle are wrong: 
When I first saw your Venice image I didn’t realise it wasn’t an entry, and was about to accuse you of using AI – it does have that over-busy, unreal quality. Your own handcrafted surreal entry is glorious, with so many outstanding timepieces there. Good call remembering the Dark Side of the Moon track, and As Time Goes By still from Casablanca. Loved the sand clock and water clock. I really enjoyed gazing at this one. I like the idea of the watch salesman entry, but I must point out one error. At first glance he could be in the distance, at the back of the shop. But with his tray overlapping the stand, it puts him much closer to the display – which means he’s far too small for the scene. I enjoyed GKB's half-finished entry, with the Dali clocks and that rather splendid hourglass. Is it dripping liquid gold? I’m intrigued by the floating Rolex logo in front of it, which doesn’t appear to be attached to anything. A fun entry from Ant Snell, referencing the Euro 2024 finals (sorry, footie fans, but Spain were clearly the better team). Just the one thing puzzles me: the glass has been smashed, but none of the drinks taken. Another smashed window, this time from Frank, a good display of the watch in the act of being stolen. You do need to have another think about scale, though; the brick is too small and the hand slightly too big, I feel. I like the broken glass fragments, they add a lot. I know Imelda Marcos had a thing about shoes, but was she a watch fanatic as well? DavidMac certainly thinks so. Oh yes, I see – she has $21 million worth of them. I like the reflection of the card, although it does appear to betray the fact that there’s nothing holding it up. It’s not like michael sinclair to get political, but it is like him to be wildly off-topic. What, no scorch mark on the side of the cap? |
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